Zillionth Cotillion

Zillionth Cotillion

A Poem by Re-Pete
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Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined. - Thoreau

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I Dance Alone… | Cerca Trova

truth can be ugly
especially when it's the only one at the dance
still stuck in the past's two-step trance
willing to take yet another chance
i bow and take its hand
as i lead it out onto a killing floor
oblivious to the lit, red sign over the exit door

i twirl it 'round and 'round
with an occasional dip
inching ever closer to an emotional fat lip
we even do the twist
along with its dirty laundry list
a pointless waltz i know all too well
with its turgid, myopic triple-chin swell

thinking i'm finished, i bow and kiss its wrinkled hand
unable to ever take a firm, resolute stand
i tell myself i'll never sway with it ever again
but i still do the chicken, clucking with that old hen
sometimes a disconcerting limbo
just to see how low we can actually go

all tapped out
beginning to sweat
finishing neck to neck
cheek to cheek
not for a healing embrace but rather the meek
well dressed and chic
tangoing

up a foul smelling creek



© 2021 Re-Pete


Author's Note

Re-Pete
"We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light." - Thoreau

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this is excellent! i must confess i'm not great at reviewing but this is really lovely. these lines stood out to me: "i bow and take its hand / as i lead it out onto a killing floor / still stuck in the past's two-step trance." this was wonderfully haunting. great job!


Posted 3 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Re-Pete

3 Years Ago

wow. so kind. a dance i'd rather not keep doing. one that i'm getting all too good at. thank you.. read more



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I absolutely enjoyed reading this. Wonderfully written! Love the rhythmic rhyming!

Posted 3 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Re-Pete

3 Years Ago

i hate having to bend down to my shortcomings! thank you ... :)
You are one of my favourite Poets here Pete - this piece proves why :) Not only a brilliant title but an amazingly thought out sequence within this poem - I don't think anything can be added to it - you leave me in awe every time :)

Posted 3 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Re-Pete

3 Years Ago

thank you ruth, so kind. now if i could only stop myself from moving to the wrong beats of the past.. read more
Ruth

3 Years Ago

Just create your own beats - that way they mute out all other beats lol
How the 2 words in your title sound together make me cream my jeans. Delicious! I always enjoy your lively & far-reaching & witty wordplay, some of your signature moves here --> twisting a hackneyed phrase into something fresh & surprising: "dirty laundry list". I have friends like this. Never outright annoying so that blowing them off is needed, but swearing off them from time to time just for a rest. Or that other dance where I dip my toes in society but realize I've been in the wilderness too long & I can't go back. Love this poem (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

Posted 3 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Re-Pete

3 Years Ago

lol. should have told me you had cream - could use some in my morning coffee. your last statement .. read more
barleygirl

3 Years Ago

There must be a poem in your 3 stooges share, but it's beyond me . . .
Re-Pete

3 Years Ago

don't get me started ... :)
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Dancing with the past can be good or it can be dangerous. I like to talk a skip and a hop down that road. I try to stay closer hugging the curves of the fond memories

Posted 3 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Re-Pete

3 Years Ago

i can't seem to let go of the bad memories - they keep coming back. good advice about hugging the f.. read more
The best thing about the past is that it's past. Except when you won't let it be. Too many are like the speaker in the poem. They continue with the same old dance, year after year. HDT's comment is sound, as usual.

Posted 3 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Re-Pete

3 Years Ago

i must like holding it, twirling and being dizzy ... :)
this is excellent! i must confess i'm not great at reviewing but this is really lovely. these lines stood out to me: "i bow and take its hand / as i lead it out onto a killing floor / still stuck in the past's two-step trance." this was wonderfully haunting. great job!


Posted 3 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Re-Pete

3 Years Ago

wow. so kind. a dance i'd rather not keep doing. one that i'm getting all too good at. thank you.. read more

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Added on April 29, 2021
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